For him the Church's decision to allow the ordination of women had been the last straw.

对他来说，教堂允许妇女被授予圣职的决定使他再也不能容忍下去了。

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Given that it is only since 1917 that ordination has been a requirement for cardinals, might we one day see further changes that bring women into that level of service in the Church?

教会不过是从1917年起才规定枢机必须先晋铎，我们能有一天看到进一步的改变，女性担任教会内的枢机职？

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The media is reflecting on the narrow rejection of the ordination of women bishops in the Church of England by its ruling general synod.

BBC: Women bishops vote: media reaction

In those ten years the Church of England has gone through some remarkable changes including the ordination of women priests and a new tolerance of priests with a homosexual orientation.

BBC: News Online

"It is now five years since the last time the governing body considered the question of the ordination of women to the episcopate, and many of its members will have changed, " said the Bishop of St Asaph, the Right Reverend Gregory Cameron.

BBC: Women bishops on agenda for Church in Wales governing body